Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!ncar!tank!eecae!cps3xx!golden
From: golden@cps3xx.UUCP (golden james)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re^2: Warning: New User Question
Keywords: Neural nets, blitter
Message-ID: <3029@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 89 12:43:15 GMT
References: <1082@altos86.UUCP> <10650@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <261@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Reply-To: golden@cps3xx.UUCP (golden james)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing
Lines: 17

In article <261@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> mlelstv@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst ) writes:
>bob@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (robert s. richardson) writes:
>
>>...  Is it conceivable to utilize the
>>blitter as a math coprocessor with the proper code?  Or is the
>
>I checked some simple (fixpoint) operations:
>In fact, the blitter may ADD and MULTIPLY faster than an 68000
>if you choose a different number representation to avoid multiple

What about using the blitter to implement a neural network, since they
usually suffer from hundreds of simple integer calculations?  Could you
simply "blit" the network recursively to obtain a result?

Mike Golden
Physiology Undergraduate
Michigan State University